On 15/11/17 10:03, Andrej Golovnin wrote: > I think we would need to write ugly code in any case as Java 9 has now > two empty list implementations: Collections.emptyList() and List.of(). > > Collections.emptyList().sort() does not throw an exception. > > List.of().sort() throws an exception.
Well, that's a bug. Sorting an empty list is perfectly valid, and application programmers shouldn't have to special-case it. -- Andrew Haley Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
